Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2014 - Page 70

Eye on Opportunity
Union Investment Real Estate perceives
plenty of potential in Finland
Sustainability, energy efficiency and the environment remain drivers in the
real estate investment sector. Philip La Pierre, Head of Investment Europe,
Union Investment Real Estate GmbH, says that his company firmly believes
that sustainable practice goes hand in hand with economic added value and the
viability of sustainable products over the long term.
I
n fact, Union Investment is one of Germany’s first major property portfolio managers to have conducted a comprehensive analysis of its global real estate fund
portfolio according to sustainability criteria.
The results were published in May 2012 in
the Group’s first Corporate Social Responsibility report.
“Our real estate portfolio currently
comprises 37 assets with national or international sustainability certificates as LEED.
BREEAM or DGNB, totalling some 4.7 billion Euros. The properties in Finland are all
designed to meet the group’s sustainability
requiremen